David Mendes and Sheila Gun Reid clash over LGBTQ+ visibility, with Mendes mocking nudist events and accusing Ron McClain of betraying Don Cherry for political gain while cherrypicking past controversies. They expose Mark Carney’s 120 conflicts of interest, $6.8M in unexercised stock options, and partisan polling ties, dismissing a Polara poll as biased propaganda favoring legacy media like CBC over independent outlets. Lockdowns worsened obesity trends, they argue, while the RCMP’s arbitrary gun ban—like the R9MK1 prohibition—threatens Calgary jobs and demonizes law-abiding owners. Elizabeth May’s hypocrisy, from singing to Omar Khadr to driving a 640-horsepower Viper, fuels skepticism of her Green Party leadership and digital sales tax push. The episode ties these threads into a broader critique of government overreach, media bias, and unsustainable immigration policies, urging viewers to question authority and support Rebel News’s independence. [Automatically generated summary]
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Rebel News live stream on this, say Monday, July 14th, 2025.
I'm David Mendes, and my co-host, well, let me tell you a little bit about my co-host, shall I?
Folks, do you know that today is International Non-Binary Day?
And my co-host will not be celebrating that because, you see, it comes down to this.
If you identify as non-binary, well, you're part of a binary.
She is the she-devil with a sword.
She is the Khaleesi of Northern Alberta.
She is the sensational Sheila Gun Reid.
Hey, Sheila, how you doing?
And does this rainbow mafia stuff ever end?
No, it has invaded the entire summer.
And even beyond that, it is so exhausting.
I just want to be able to go into the drugstore without like the flag on this door and everybody's welcome as if the gays are like, I can't go in here.
There's no signs that say we're allowed.
Like it's the dumbest thing.
But I'm really glad that you went with the National Non-Binary Day stuff because our other options are, and it's International Non-Binary People's Day, by the way.
It's also National Nude Day.
And you and I did go on a story one time that involved nudists.
And I just wanted to jump out of my skin the entire time.
But at the end of it all, I ended up having a very vigorous discussion about government overreach with an entirely naked man.
And, you know, if you just stop and talk to people, you can find things in common.
And that was the thing that I learned that day.
You know, it was a year ago this month, Sheila.
And by the way, just for clarity, when you refer to an entirely naked man, you're not referring to me, of course.
No.
No.
No, but folks, it's true.
We went to the Bear Oaks nudist resort, I think it is, just north of Toronto.
And it had something to do with some, was it a naked bowling event or something like that?
Yeah, it was naked bowling.
It was a naked swimming too.
And I was like, good lord.
And Sheila took one for the team.
We rang the bell, fully expecting the du regueur response of the police being called.
But no, the operator and his assistant, they came walking along, completely nude.
And Sheila at first, you see that little, you know, gatekeeping station.
She went behind there and she was doubled over like she was seasick.
I was in full-blown anxiety attack because if anybody knows me in real life, I am the biggest prude.
Like certain things make me nauseous.
And you'll scarcely see even my like elbows in real life.
I would be fine as a member of a religion that didn't require anybody, like that prevented you from like showing your elbows and ankles.
I would be great.
I would be fine.
And so, and then they just sauntered up.
And I remember going to you, David, oh my God, there's people coming.
And I was just like, what do I do?
Where do I go?
Where do I look?
Luckily, he had this amazing mustache that I found quite captivating.
And so it just drew my eye, obviously, upward because otherwise I would just be staring directly at the sun, hoping for eye damage.
Rebel News' 10 Year Birthday!00:08:21
And you know what?
That's no judgment on their physiques.
Don't like nudity, even my own.
I'll give props when I see them.
That mustache was right up there with the all-time greats, and I'm thinking of Lanny McDonald.
Lanny McDonald.
Yeah, you know, the previous shot, Sheila, I couldn't help but notice with the gate, the arm across the street, blocking out the private parts.
Like, that's right out of Benny Hill.
You know, it's just that visual optical delusion, shall we call it.
But we have blurred it.
Maybe we should have done a better job of blurring it now that I think of it.
Could be a fig leaf, you know, it was fine.
But these are the adventures that we've been on in the last 10 years for me here at Rebel News.
And here's to maybe 10 more, although maybe with a little less nudity.
That's why I want to invite everybody at home watching before we get into what we're doing here at Rebel News to join us for our birthday party because we have survived 10 years.
Actually, our 10th birthday was back in February, but we were in the throes of the liberal leadership campaign.
And then we went directly into electioneering mode.
And so we couldn't stop to celebrate not us, but all of you who helped us achieve this milestone because without you at home, there is no Rebel News.
But now things have slowed down.
We'd like to invite you to our birthday party.
You can go to happybirthdayrebel.com.
Sorry, Olivia, I know I'm doing this out of order, so the graphic might not be right.
If you go to happybirthdayrebel.com, you can learn all about our upcoming 10th birthday party, which is Belay Did.
So you can get your tickets at happybirthdayrebel.com.
Olivia, can you pop that page up, please?
So that everybody can see.
There we are.
We're having fun.
I need a new headshot.
I don't know why I never look like myself.
But this is all of us.
We're celebrating our 10th birthday.
We're doing it in Calgary.
I believe it's September 12th, I believe.
Sorry, September 18th.
Thursday, September 18th at 6 p.m. It's at the Carriage House Hotel and Conference Center.
We love those guys.
Live music, drinks, snacks, meet and greet, photos with your favorite journalists, which should be all of us.
You shouldn't pick favorites.
Join us in Calgary for a milestone celebration marking 10 incredible years of fearless journalism, unapologetic truth-telling, and setting up for freedom.
And I love this line because it's not just a party, it's a celebration of what we've built together.
And it's true.
David, they've predicted the end of Rebel News.
I don't know, endless amounts of times.
Like every time we get into like a little bit of, I don't want to say trouble.
Every time we get a little rambunctious or run up against government censorship or get involved in some controversy, which seems to be part of what we do around here, somebody in the government subsidized media says, this is it for them.
This is, they'll never recover from this or or whatever.
And it's like, we're still here.
And I'm watching just another round of mainstream media layoffs coupled with bailouts over and over again.
And the only way that we've survived this long is thanks to our viewers at home who believe in our mission and who support the work that we do of telling the other side of the story and telling the stories the mainstream media doesn't want told at all.
They don't even want to talk to normal people.
That's my favorite thing that I do.
So you can get your tickets at happybirthdayrebel.com.
And David, you'll be there too.
Yes, I found that out by reading the advice.
But I couldn't be happier.
I love the people out in Wild Rose Country.
And to heap on your critique of the legacy media, Sheila, let's not forget the other tangible reasons why they need government bailouts.
And that is viewers, listeners, and readers are shrinking year over year.
Advertisers are going the way of the dinosaur.
The advertisers that remain, they're paying a fraction of what they used to, say, like 20 years ago.
And, you know, it's kind of sad because why not maybe have a business model where you give people what they want instead of just running out to Ottawa and saying we need welfare.
So, yeah, this is why we're here.
If, you know, Sheila, you thanked our audience.
If they didn't want us or didn't like us or didn't support us, we're not here.
Simple as that.
Right.
Because we won't do the alternative, which is take money from the government to produce content nobody wants.
And then, you know, then there's the there's the, I guess it would be the unintended consequences for the mainstream media, but I don't want to say unforeseen consequences because anybody with any sort of business sense could have seen this coming.
But if you are in the mainstream media, you don't have a ton of that.
When they shook down meta for money, then Meta said, okay, well, you can't have Canadian news on our platform.
That caused their viewership numbers and their reach to shrink off, they, the mainstream media, which drove down advertising.
Because when you, why would you advertise with somebody who has no reach, right?
So they thought, oh, we'll shake down Meta for a bunch of money and make meta pay every time somebody who reads our content shares our content, which is free sharing for the news companies.
They thought they would shake down meta for some reason and then it drove away their advertising, which, I mean, anybody, anybody could have seen that coming except the mainstream media who refuse to rejig their business model.
But that's not us.
And we live on a decade now, thanks to our viewers at home.
Now, I should, just to get the show back on track.
Anyways, that's happybirthdayrebel.com.
We'd love to see you there.
But to get the show back on track, more on not taking money from Mark Carney or any level of government to do the work that we do.
One of the reasons we democratize the show, this show right now, Rebel Roundup, our daily news and opinion show, is to allow you to help support us, but also give you back something in return.
And that is let you have your say.
So if you are watching us on Rumble, we appreciate you for sticking it out on the great free speech platform.
You can leave a Rumble rant.
That's how you can have your say.
It's the paid chat.
So you get to have your say and you get to support us.
So give something, get something.
It's over the $5 U.S. cutoff.
It's obligatory that we read it on air.
If it's under that, we'll do our best to get to it.
Time permitting.
I don't know what the studio constraints are today.
So I can't make any commitments that way.
But if you are watching us on YouTube, where we remain mysteriously, just so mysteriously remonetized over there, I am in my soul convinced that it is some sort of glitch in the system that they haven't fixed yet.
But we are remonetized over there.
So if you want to leave us a super chat, that's their paid chat.
Same rules apply as Rumble.
And there's an additional way you can help us.
If you are unable to watch the live version of the live stream, so you're watching the pre-record or the recorded version of it, you can leave a super thanks.
That's the paid chat.
And we appreciate you because every little bit helps.
We know that there is less money in your pocket than ever before.
These carny liberals are finding new and creative ways to make sure you have less money and they have more of it.
So we appreciate that you choose us.
So I think those are all the loose ends until we hit an ad break and then I'll have a quick little message about an upcoming event that I think people need to know about.
Ron McClain's Buyer's Remorse?00:15:38
But let's talk about Canada's worst friend.
Yes, well, you know, I mentioned Landy McDonald in comparison to your favorite nudists.
And by the way, if I can go on a tangerine here, could that be one of the top 10 worst trades in Leaf history?
We got rid of Lanny McDonald for Wilf Paymont from the Colorado Rockies.
By the way, there is a trivia question answer here.
The only other player aside from Wayne Gretzky to wear 99, Wilf Paymont, because the league has permanently retired that.
Anyways, that's my tidbit hockey trivia for the day.
But in terms of bad trivia, or someone who's maybe trivial these days, Sheila, our good friend, Joe Warmington, the scrawler, no, he's not the trivial one, but his story is about Ron McClain, who, When I look at the comment section, the number of times some kind of rodent is mentioned in regard to Ron McClane, a rat, a weasel, the list goes on.
He came out with a cockamamie, crazy story that Don Cherry.
He's just the snake of a man.
Yeah, who is beloved by millions.
And that's not an exaggeration.
Millions.
I wonder how many people love Ron McClain, 13 or 14?
Anyways, he said, Sheila, as you know, that he orchestrated that whole poppy gate.
And I mean, really, calling that a scandal along the lines of Watergate.
He's only a scandal for the people, like the CBC losers who whipped it up and the extreme left.
So Ron McClain would have us believe that Don Cherry orchestrated his own removal from TV by saying uncontroversial things that he has said his entire career.
That's Ron McClain's conspiracy created by Don Cherry.
That man is an absolute Judas, the worst friend in Canada.
And instead of keeping his mouth shut, he keeps putting theories about Don Cherry into the main, into the ethos and in the public discourse that just are not true and are so easily debunked that you just go, hey, Don, is that true?
And Don goes, you know.
And his wife is now saying that Ron McClain is forever not welcome at their household.
Yeah.
He shouldn't even be allowed to walk down the street in Don Cherry's neighborhood without being hissed and booed.
Oh, I agree, Sheila, but he went further than what you just said, you know, this whole conspiracy of Don Cherry orchestrating some kind of pseudo-scandal to get him fired.
We all know Don Cherry isn't like that.
Don Cherry means what he says and he says what he means.
If Don Cherry was sick and tired of Coach's Corner, he would have done a farewell show and it would be a proper show and it'd be saying goodbye to his favorite interviewees over the years.
But then Ron McClain went on to this sidebar that he was feeling sick and he checked himself into a Boston hospital.
Wait a minute.
You're now talking about somebody's medical issues.
And Don Cherry, in his interview with Joe Warmington, he said, I never went to a hospital.
I wasn't feeling great.
I went to my hotel room.
And by the way, Sheila, if we took a poll, whose side of the story do you believe?
Ron McClain, Don Cherry?
How is that going to skew when the results are tabulated?
Ron McClain is one of the worst individuals in the entire Canadian media landscape.
And I think in all of sports broadcasting, and that's saying something considering how infested sports broadcasting is with far-left-wing crazy people and weird radical feminists.
He is just a terrible individual.
And at this point, I think a pathological liar.
Like, why would you lie about something so easily checked out, except you exist in a bubble where you think that people trust you, but they don't trust Don Cherry.
And Sheila, super producer Olivia tells me that we have a clip of Don Cherry in his own words refuting the garbage that Ron McClain is spewing.
This was filmed by Mr. Warmington a few days ago.
So for those who desperately miss Coach's Corner, I can't believe it's been off the air for six years now.
Yeah, unbelievable.
And you know what?
Just more over to your point before we roll this.
Don did his big farewell the other day.
And so we know that he would have done a farewell on Coach's Corner if he wanted to retire because he was doing his podcast and he said, I'm not going to do that anymore.
Here's my big farewell.
So why wouldn't he have done that on Coach's Corner?
And I think now Ron opened his big lying yap because he thought, oh, Don's retiring.
He's not going to say anything.
But I guess Don doesn't suffer fools and liars kindly.
So anyway, let's listen.
You'd like the records set straight on this.
I'm very disappointed in Ron that he would bring this up.
And I'm very disappointed in him that he would reach back five years and do this.
Is he still welcome here to call you and your friend, or is this friendship?
No, no, the wife he isn't.
And how do you feel about it?
I don't have any feelings.
I don't have any feelings towards Ron.
This is your wingman for almost, whatever it was, almost 40 years.
40 years.
Almost 40 years.
And there's a sense of kind of almost like a betrayal of it.
Yeah.
Well, I don't know about that.
But I know one thing I'm disappointed in him.
Have you talked to him?
No.
And do you want to talk to him about it?
No, I don't want to talk to him about it.
These stories that are being written about you now, did anybody contact you?
No.
What do you think of that?
You think the only guy to contact me is you?
It's just basic.
Nobody, I was really surprised when Lou McGinn gave me that story.
What a shame.
And you know what?
What a class act to Sheila.
He could dump all kinds of expletives on Ron McClain, but clearly he just wants to move on.
Two things.
Let us never forget that as much as Ron McClain was supposedly offended because the very next Saturday in what was to be Coach's Corner, which was just Ron McClain doing a groveling apology, talking about how inappropriate it is.
You go back to that final coach's corner, Sheila, and you'll see Ron nodding all the time, putting his thumbs up at the end.
CBC at the time never thought anything of it because they rebroadcast it on their Western affiliates later on.
So, you know, really, it's like all the lefty koots that came out with why this was offensive, they bought into that instead of making a stance.
And secondly, here's my question for you, Sheila: what in blue hell is Ron McClain's unspoken strategy to do this?
Was he drunk when he gave that sports writer an interview?
Is he desperate to get back into the limelight?
I mean, I've got nothing here.
This is a guy who's gunning for the Order of Canada, Ron McClain, or a Senate, a Senate selection.
He's been a vocal supporter of Pride Tape.
Remember that?
The rainbow-colored hockey tape used to promote inclusion and LGBTQ rights within the sports, within sports, whatever that means.
He wrote a weird op-ed.
I forget who he did it for on the diversity of the hockey community.
So, I mean, he knows.
Right.
This is when they banned the tape saying we don't want any politics on the ice, he wrote an op-ed complaining about it.
Because they told us initially, we're not supposed to care if players are gay or not, or whatever.
And we're all like, yeah, perfect.
Sounds good.
Great deal.
And then now it's like, no, no, no, you need to care.
And we need to visibly identify them and their allies, which seems the opposite of like playing on a team, right?
Where everybody is just, you're wearing one uniform.
But yeah, this he's, I think, he would love to be in the Order of Canada before Don Cherry is.
But Don Cherry said something there that I thought good for you, Don.
Because the opposite of love is not hate.
The opposite of love is indifference.
It's actually nothing, right?
And Don said, I don't feel anything for Ron McLean.
And I thought, you know what?
Good for you.
Because if you hated him, he would know that he was getting to you, that you actually gave a rip about what he thought about you or his stupid comments about you.
But to say that you feel nothing, oh, that's a knife at Ron.
Good for him.
You know, Sheila, you're so right.
And I'll expand your analysis to what poses for between-period intermission broadcasting these days in hockey.
And I hardly watch any of it.
It's really, you know, what they did to Don Cherry made me move away from hockey and more into NFL football, to be quite frank.
I never thought I would say that.
But when I do tune in these between-period interviews, you know, in this business, they say, be bad, be good, be so bad you're good.
But the cardinal sin is boring.
Do not be boring.
And I see these talking heads.
They're not emotional.
They don't want to take any risks.
They can't say what they really want to say, and you've got boring padlam between periods.
Contrast that with Coach's Corner, which was the highest-rated eight minutes of Canadian television every single week.
I thought the business, Sheila, was all about getting eyeballs, but I guess if you're not woke in the Looney Toon Left ballpark, you are canceled and to hell with the bottom line.
What a disgrace.
You know, we've got some comments from Bobby Orr.
I don't know if you saw these.
He wrote a letter to the editor in the Toronto Sun today.
Let's go through those.
I see it's a hockeyfeed.com says Bobby Orr buries Ron McClain over recent Don Cherry comments.
So do we have the oh, wrote letters to the editor.
Okay, so I just pulled up letters to the editor on from Bobby Orr.
He says, suggesting Don Cherry used encouraging people to wear poppies on Remembrance Day as an exit strategy from Coach's Corner, revealing he had pneumonia in 2019 and that he doesn't have many friends.
I have only one thing to say to you, Ron McClain.
Shame on you.
Signed Bobby Orr, one of Grape's millions of friends and fans.
Oh, yeah.
And that's no exaggeration.
And you know what the perverse irony here is, Sheila?
If Ron McClain had done the right thing, if Ron McClain had said to the people at SportsNet and CBC and Rogers, listen, you get rid of Don.
It's a package deal.
I'm going to.
Because Don twice put his career on the line for Ron McClain, I do believe.
The legacy of Ron McClain, he would be right up there with Don Cherry.
So what did he do?
He opted for the paycheck and he sold his legacy and it went down the sewer.
When these two men are gone, millions will remember so fondly Don Cherry and nobody will give a rodent's rectum about Ron McClain or they'll just talk about.
I know we're not supposed to speak ill of the dead.
I think a few will, if you know what I'm saying.
So I wonder if Ron McClain, especially after this recent brouhaha, has some buyer's remorse here.
And by the way, getting into somebody's medical history, saying somebody stayed at a hospital when they didn't stay at a hospital, isn't that completely inappropriate, Sheila?
Shouldn't now Ron McClain live by the sword, die by the sword.
You did something inappropriate.
You talked about an ex-employee's medical history.
I wonder, is SportNet going to tailor-make a pink slip for Ron McClain?
Are we going to see him back next season?
Of course we are.
Of course we are.
I don't know.
You know what?
I wouldn't bet on that.
With weirdos for some reason.
The same people who complain about toxic masculinity are lecturing you about sports primarily played by very masculine men.
But in a word, let the takeaway in all of this be: in a world of Ron McClain's, be a friend like Bobby Orr.
Bobby Orr did not have to say a word.
He's one of the most respected people in all of sports, not just hockey, all of sports.
And he stood up for his friend.
He could have remained silent, but he came out swinging for his friend.
And be that kind of friend in a world of fickle Ron McClain's willing to step on the corpses of their former friends to climb up the social ladder.
Be a Bobby Orr.
When you see somebody doing something wrong, do the right thing.
And Sheila, I can't reveal the source on this, but I also understand Wayne Gretzky is furious over this.
Polling Firm's Trust Issue00:16:02
I believe it.
I believe it.
So whose camp do you want to be in?
Don Cherry, Bobby Orr, Wayne Gretzky, or Team Ron the Rat McClain.
Unbelievable.
They should wrap some of that rainbow tape around his mouth next time he tries to open his yap about Don Cherry.
At least it'll be useful then.
Hey, we should hit an ad break and then we'll come back and talk about the long list of Mark Carney's conflicts of interest.
Feels like something we should have known about during the election.
But let's hit that ad break.
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And Sheila, as you teased before the break, Carney to recuse himself from dealings with over one hundred in sprawling government conflict screen.
You know, Sheila, does Mark Carney want to make a decision?
Does he want to be the prime minister and govern Canada?
Or is he more beholden to Brookfield acid management?
I don't see a way out here.
I don't see how he can serve as prime minister with all these companies which obviously have tentacles into government business.
I just don't.
It's Brookfield, so it literally touches everything.
So this is from the CBC that I'm reading.
These are the ones that he had before he threw them into a blind trust.
And so, but that is to say that he obviously knows about them, right?
Like it's not like he put them in a blind trust and then was stricken with amnesia.
Like he knows what they are.
Like it's so dumb.
So he knows what decisions the government can make, i.e. modular housing that would affect Brookfield stock price.
Like it's idiotic.
It's not like he put his assets in a blind trust and then someone hit him on the head with a hammer and he's like, where am I?
What did I own?
It's not like that at all.
So and we're supposed to applaud Carney because he was supposed to tell us what these, Like, declare his conflicts of interest 120 days after being prime minister.
But boy, it sure would have been nice for people during the election to know that the promises he was making, i.e., modular housing, would directly affect the stocks that he held.
But they never did.
Oh, Sheila Gunread, look inside yourself.
Look inside yourself.
Rosie, look inside yourself.
So, according to the filing, Carney held assets in Brookfield Asset Management.
No surprise, they're Stripe.
He previously sat on the board of directors with both companies.
Carney had $6.8 million worth of unexercised stock options as of January 31st.
Held assets in two advisory firms, two environmental companies, have a self-administered RRSP and a wide variety of shares in an investment fund managed by a third party.
The only thing he kept out of a blind trust is some cash, a cottage, and the family home.
It also lists the number of gifts Carney has received since taking office that the prime minister is required to disclose.
Included in the list are gifts of two hockey jerseys from the Edmonton Oilers, and the other one is a Washington Capitals jersey that he was gifted by Donald Trump, some alcohol from Macron, an engraved bull from Kier Starmer.
I don't know.
This is all, and from what I understand, the majority of the assets he holds are American because even Mark Carney knows that Elbows Up falls flat on its face when you look at the returns because this is not an investment-friendly country.
And that is due in no small part to Mark Carney being the guy whispering in Justin Trudeau's ear for five years.
100%.
And you know, Sheila, I can't believe how Carney and the Liberal Party was able to recover from really one of the earliest scandals in the last federal election.
And that was Mark Carney lying about Brookfield.
I'm trying to remember the chronology.
This is going back to January, saying he's no longer chair of Brookfield.
This was in regard to Brookfield Asset Management moving its headquarters from Toronto to New York City.
But whoa, he was too.
Elbows up.
Elbows up.
Elbows up when you're carrying those boxes so you don't hurt your back when you're moving to the United States.
Yep.
But what was conveniently absent in that explanation is that the decision was made in October, October 31st.
Happy Halloween.
How do you like those apples?
And Carney was the chair.
So this business of elbows up, wrapping himself in the flag, I'm going to be Captain Canuck saving Canadian jobs.
Well, he spoke volumes, you know, less than three months before that January lie in terms of moving the headquarters of a company that is responsible for almost $1 trillion in assets.
Yeah, 91% of Carney's portfolio is U.S.-based.
We also know that that whole elbows up strategy, which is now elbows down, elbows up, elbows down, as my MP Garnett Jennis calls, it's the chicken dance of foreign policies constantly.
But we know that that entire thing was based around Privy Council polling of Canadians' impressions of the incoming American president.
And they were worried about what Donald Trump would do as part of his America First strategy.
And that was then, so Canadians paid for that polling data.
It should have been stayed nonpartisan in government's hands.
Instead, it was given to political operatives within the Liberal Party and then used to craft a campaign strategy that helped the Liberals win the next election.
In another more grown-up country, that would be absolutely illegal because the Liberals, the Liberals were the only ones with access to it, even though it was paid for as part of Privy Council polling.
The Conservatives never had access to that polling data.
It was used for partisan reasons, and then normally people would go to jail in other countries, but this is Canada and you can do whatever you want as long as you're part of the natural governing party of this country.
But yeah, so that's why you see the insincerity of the Elbows Up strategy.
And Carney never actually felt that way when it comes to his own multi-million dollars worth of investments.
The Elbows Up strategy is for you so that you maybe don't go to Las Vegas on your bachelorette or to Nashville on your bachelor party because you've been told by the TV to travel in Canada.
I see Mr. We Better Travel in Canada.
Don't go places.
He was at Wimbledon.
Did you see that?
Last week we speculated, like, where did Mark Carney go on his summer vacation?
Because he's been telling Canadians to travel within Canada and Canada, like, spend your money in Canada.
Well, where is he?
Wimbledon.
Yeah, and by the way, Sheila, and I'm speaking as someone who just came back last week from California.
If there's any reason why Canadians aren't traveling to the U.S. in any kind of critical mass, then killing you take a dollar right now.
It's almost like 40%, I believe.
It is crippling.
So please, can we, you know, park that patriotism?
I'm staying in Canada to, you know, whatever.
Give Donald Trump the finger.
No, no, no, no.
You're staying in Canada because you're too poor to pay for a vacation in U.S. dollars.
Right.
So now, by the way, you mentioned polling.
Why don't we switch gears?
Yeah.
And I know our beloved boss man Ezra Levant has some thoughts about that.
Oh, I saw this when it came in on Saturday morning.
And I saw this and I was like, how did they even find people to poll on this stuff?
Who knows who the Beaverton is?
I ran around my household and I was like, do you know what the Beaverton is?
My mother-in-law is like, no.
Do you guys know the Beaverton?
No, my kids, who are like on the internet, they're like very in the internet.
No, no clue what the Beaverton is.
And I was like, so how did they even find people to poll on this?
But anyways, Polara Strategic Insights.
Polara's annual trust in media study shows how much liberal and conservative voters trust different news outlets.
And then if you drill down, they said, I forget what it is.
It was that the Beaverton was more trusted than rebel media.
Well, we haven't been a Rebel Media in five, six years, maybe?
So, Ezra was like, Yeah, so it's like, who, who are you talking to?
Because a lot of people who came to us during the pandemic don't know us as the prior name at all, right?
So, they're probably like, what's that?
So, Canada's most trusted media outlets are the Weather Network, CBC, CTV, and Global.
Major print chains like the Globe and Mail, Canadian Press, National Post, Toronto Star, and McLean's also enjoy high trust stores.
I don't remember the last time I clicked on a McLean's link.
Only media outlets tested with negative trust scores are the Beaverton, Rebel Media, and Fox News.
And then, if you go up, sorry, no, no, no, don't go too far.
Just, I want to read that top paragraph there.
TV coverage was the most common source of news in the recent federal election.
52% got their news there.
73% of boomers or older are getting their election news from TV.
Well, that explains something.
26% of Gen Z voters were more likely to get election news from just 26% of Gen Z voters.
So, 26% of Gen Z were getting their news from TV.
Gen Z voters were more likely to get election news from Instagram, 31%.
You guys see the lie there?
You guys see the lie?
You can't get news on Instagram.
Oh, I missed that.
You can't get news on Instagram.
That should have been your first quote that this was baloney, and that's me being kind.
That this whole, so Ezra was like, ah, I must drill down.
Let's go through Ezra's thread because this was like celebrated all around left-wing internet.
So, Ezra goes, a polling firm called Polara just published what they call a study about trust in media, but I think it's unintentionally about trust in liberal-run pollsters.
Let me explain.
And I just showed you one lie, right?
First about Polara.
It's run by die-hard liberal activists, including Dan Arnold.
Here's some of his work.
He publishes at Calgary Grit, as in the Grits and the Tory, so Grit being a liberal.
And then Don Guy, or Guy, Dalton McGuinty's former staffer.
They're not actually a neutral firm.
Polara has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from Justin Trudeau and then Mark Carney to be partisan.
And then Ezra puts to the Open Canada link where you can see how much money they're getting from the federal government to tell you that you should trust the media companies that the federal government is giving money to to say nice things about the federal government.
Okay.
It is possible for left-wing activists with huge contracts from left-wing politicians to produce reputable polls.
I think Janice Brown, Janet Brown in Alberta, is one of those.
But there's something astonishing about this survey that should be embarrassing to everyone at Polara.
They tested news sources that don't exist.
They asked Canadians how often they read 24 hours.
So that's a, it was a print magazine, a print, like a, I don't want to say newspaper, but it was like a little, almost like a pamphlet because it was so small.
And Metro.
Hundreds of Canadians told Polara that they do, that they read those two, Metro and 24 Hours.
Trouble is, both of those news outlets shut down years ago.
Polara lied to survey takers who lied right back to them.
It's so funny.
How can anyone who claims to be politically literate with a finger on the pulse of the national conversation not know that they shut down years ago?
Here's the obituary for Metro, and here it is for 24 hours.
There are other things that don't pass the sniff test.
Is it really true that liberals and NDP voters love the National Post even more than conservatives do?
Like, really?
I don't think so.
Does anyone believe that block Quebecois separatists say the New York Times is their number one source?
Facebook was one of the news outlets.
Polara's Flawed Poll00:06:28
This is the lie that I caught right away.
Facebook is one of the news outlets that Polara tested.
But as savvy block Quebecois readers of the New York Times would know, they're so funny.
Facebook didn't publish any election news.
It blocked all Canadian news sources.
Why would Polara lie like that?
I do.
I know why, Ezra.
It's the money dollar bills, y'all.
I'm not sure this is just sloppiness, laziness, or delegating to an intern or what, but it is the sloppiest poll I've ever seen.
I think it's a bit of a tip-off that these pollsters are trying to dunk on us.
True.
You don't often see that from legitimate professionals.
Yeah.
They say, hey, Beaverton, you're more trusted than Fox News and Rebel.
And they made sure not to tag us because they knew we would immediately see the problem with their poll, right?
So they tagged the Beaverton, who are stupid and wouldn't drill down.
And they celebrated, but actual journalists over here at Rebel News are like, something real wrong here, and you should be skeptical.
Polara's liberal boss has been hired at Carleton University's Clayton Riddell Master of Political Management program to teach his liberal ways.
These guys all look the same.
That guy looks like the poutine eater from CBC, right?
What's his face?
The guy who hates Ezra.
To teach his liberal ways.
One of the worst things Preston Manning did was convince Clay to give Ottawa liberals $15 million.
Imagine what that $15 million could have done if it had been carefully invested in promoting Western values or respect for Alberta's oil patch.
Instead, that money has been vacuumed up by Ottawa insiders who hate everything Riddell stood for.
By the way, I don't care if people call us Rebel Media, but it's a giveaway that they haven't watched us since 2019 when we changed our name to Rebel News.
Exactly.
I'm genuinely interested in what Canadians think of us, but this Polara poll is not legitimate.
In 2023, we hired Leger, a mainstream reputable pollster, to see what Canadians really thought of us.
If they thought of us at all, here are the results at rebelpoll.ca.
I found them very encouraging.
But what Polara did today isn't a poll.
It's a sloppy pack of lies, subsidized by taxpayers.
They should delete it and apologize.
I'd say they should redo the poll, but frankly, I don't think anyone should take their work seriously ever again, other than as propaganda.
Well said.
You know, Sheila, what comes to mind here is I would love, well, we all know the fix is in, you know, but in terms of the methodology, I would love to see how they came up with some kind of house of cards to, you know, legitimize their data.
And I think back to, I think it goes back to 1990.
It was a fantastic book I read called Tainted Truth by Cynthia Crossan, who was then a Wall Street Journal editor and reporter.
And it was essentially that, even with a scientific study, that if you turn the dial one thousandth of a degree, you can dramatically change the outcome of that study.
I just want to know that behind the scenes, how much tinkering was going around so that Polara could come out with an outcome that was basically predestined, that the legacy media are fantastic.
And look at number one, too, the weather network.
How much news do you get at the weather network, Sheila?
Yeah, you know what?
Today's hot and humid.
Well, yeah, that's not fake news.
That's just a new thing.
I opened a window.
I opened a window and fact-checked them.
Like, if you get, if you watch the weather network, though, especially in Canada, you get a healthy dose of your SUV is doing this to the weather.
Instead of that being a burning full of gas in the sky.
But Sheila, who in the right mind goes to the weather network for news?
I mean, maybe you go for the weather, but you know, I don't even know if you can call a weather report news unless there's some natural disaster happening.
And then, of course, second place CBC news.
You know, give me a break.
So that's what I'm trying to say.
In the spirit of Tainted Truth, what was the methodology used to come up with these hair-brained figures?
I ain't buying it.
Ezra's not buying it.
And clearly the fix was in in terms of all these liberal connections, Sheila.
Yeah, I'm just going to quickly share a message from our friends over at the Canada Strong and Free Network because they too, much like us here at Rebel News, have an upcoming event in September.
So what is the West's place in Canada?
For some people, it's not even in Canada.
But it's important that these discussions are had and they are had outside of the shutuppery of the Laurentian elite.
So don't miss this year's Canada Strong and Free Networking Conference in Calgary on September 5th and 6th with speakers such as author Tristan Hopper, Lord Conrad Black, Premier Daniel Smith, and Preston Manning.
Early bird rates are available until August 4th.
These things usually sell out.
So don't wait on it.
Reserve your tickets today at CanadaStrongandFree network.
And you can learn more about the lineup of speakers there.
And I've been saying it every time I tell you about this conference that you must go, if only to hear from Marco Navarrogini.
If you are really curious about someone who has thought about how do landlock nations get their products to market, how do they do this trade deals?
How do two people who were artificially forced together peacefully say goodbye to one another?
He's thought about all of those things.
He's over at the Haltane Institute, and I just think he's great.
Okay, let's get into, we don't have a ton of time left on the day.
Well, I definitely want to get to one point because you had such a pick.
Yeah.
Covid's Impact on Lifestyle Choices00:15:18
You had so many great points on the morning meeting.
From Canada Strong and Free to how about this?
Canadians big and fat.
About one-third of Canadians are obese.
And researchers saw a steeper increase during the pandemic.
Now, Sheila Gunread, why oh, why would that be?
Why would the COVID-19 virus make you obese?
It wasn't the COVID-19 virus.
It was the COVID-19 virus of government control that made you obese.
I'm doing a video on this because, as you know, I care deeply about my health and my fitness as a woman who's on the downside of 45.
And during COVID, not during COVID, during the COVID overreaction from the government, they closed your gym.
They closed the playgrounds.
They told you, stay in, to stay safe, order in, don't get groceries.
And if you do go get groceries, make sure you follow the lines on the floor because the black death goes counterclockwise.
They even closed the national park next door to me.
Like, what were we going to do?
We're going to give COVID to the Buffalo?
Were the Buffalo going to give it to us?
They did all these things that would prevent you from actually being healthy.
And because of the overreaction, more susceptible to diseases like COVID.
Because what was the single greatest comorbidity, I think even greater than age, that was an indicator of death or poor outcomes for COVID?
Morbidity, it was obesity.
And so, and then the lifestyle-related illnesses related to obesity.
So high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, that made your outcomes for COVID worse.
And so instead of saying, you know what, you should probably just put down the phone, cook a steak, go outside, get some sun on you, get your 10,000 steps in.
Instead of saying that to you, they kept you on a lockdown and then a round of boosters.
And now everybody's worse off and kids are worse off.
And so for four years of their life, especially the little ones, when they should have been learning good lifestyle habits, they sat in front of the TV watching bluey and eating garbage.
These are habits that will take a long, long time for them to break.
And then now they're like, oh, people got more obese during COVID.
Yeah, I know.
And now it makes everything worse.
Everything worse.
Now there's an additional burden on the healthcare system because these are the most expensive lifestyle-related illnesses.
They're all tied to obesity and insulin resistance.
And Sheila, I would go one step further.
Bad habits die hard.
And by that, I mean COVID and the COVID mandates are in the rearview window of like, what, three years now?
And yet, how many people are still working from home?
How many people are still getting on the phone and calling DoorDash and Uber Eats to deliver their meals to their household?
So COVID's left, but the COVID incarcerated continue to live life like it's 2020.
Like they're on the inside.
Yeah, it's like when you spend a lifetime in prison and then you still have a difficult time adjusting to life on the outside.
That's where we're at.
Like, no, look, I did the opposite during COVID.
I was like, okay, let's really drill down on health and lifestyle.
And I don't have the option of being able to pick up the phone or open an app.
And you can tell I'm old because I did this with phone instead of this with phone, right?
But I don't have the option of like ordering in pizza.
Like no one's going to deliver pizza to me, right?
And so I have to cook everything we eat.
So I can sort of control that stuff.
But I realize the rest of the world does live in urban centers and it is very easy.
No, it is more expensive, but it's very easy to have food just delivered to your house.
And when the government is saying, stay in to stay safe, if you're lazy and you've never done anything good in your life, all of a sudden, Netflix and ordering in is your civic duty, and you get to be a good person because of that.
And now we're dealing with the fallout, and this just becomes expensive.
Even if you don't care about health and government control and all that kind of stuff, maybe you care about how expensive our health care system is going to get when one-third of Canadians are obese.
And then the cascade of conditions that come along with obesity and the things that are made worse because of obesity.
If you are already waiting months, sometimes even years to see a specialist, it's about to get way worse.
And you can thank the COVID controllers.
Oh, it's going to be horrible.
But I will tell you this, Sheila, and I'll have to be a little cryptic in my language.
I didn't buy into this garbage myself and some of my fellow rebel staffers.
We went to a secret gym during COVID.
Oh, yeah.
And if government wants to come after us for that, just try it.
And in the nice weather months, I was out on my very pricey road bike.
I got a really good bike because I would feel guilty not to ride it given how much I invested in this bike.
And I can tell you, Sheila, you know, it was kind of like Superman going to his fortress of solitude.
I'm out there in the fresh air, exercising, breaking a sweat.
And the only downside in those years were passing by other cyclists wearing masks.
How do you breathe?
See, I live out here in the middle of nowhere.
I'll go for a run.
I might pass a horse, a donkey, maybe a tractor.
But yeah, just me and my shoes.
But yeah, they even closed the national park next door.
Like it was just so stupid.
And then now they're like, oh, wow, who could have seen this coming?
I don't know.
Everybody.
Like, everybody.
What did you think when you told people it was their civic duty to sit on their butts and order in?
What did you think would happen?
Yeah.
Well, here's the hypothetical question I think of the decade, Sheila.
If we come across, oh, I don't know, COVID-26, something breaks next year, or it's avian flu, or you pick it, whatever pandemic floats your boat, and government says, you know, we're so sorry to have to say this, but we got to close down your mom paul shops.
Oh, yeah, the Walmarts and the liquor board stores and the Costco's, they can remain open.
You got to practice social distancing.
You got to wear a mask.
You got to get vaccine.
Sheila, after the hell we've been through and after more and more damning evidence emerges on a weekly basis, here's my question.
How many Canadians buy into this?
How many people again revert to being sheeple and obey these ridiculous mandates?
What say you?
I think it depends on which part of the country that you're in.
Yeah, true.
I think in Alberta, we were already, as the movie is called, ungovernable.
You just couldn't keep us locked down.
You couldn't keep us out of the restaurants.
You couldn't keep us out of church.
You couldn't stop us from protesting.
We were doing our own things.
We were ungovernable.
Because when you live in a place where you have a culture of not relying on the government, but relying on your friends and neighbors for survival and a large rural community here, you just, the government is not the answer.
It's more often the problem.
And so we were, we have a culture of sticking together with each other.
And we just, we weren't going to do it.
Now, would Toronto do it again?
Yep, I think so.
Would Vancouver do it again?
For sure.
Montreal, you better believe it.
But Fort Saskatchewan, no, thank you.
We won't be doing any of that.
So I think it does.
Like, I don't think Regina will allow itself to be locked down.
I just, I think it's a cultural thing.
And you guys are different than us.
You might be right.
It might boil down to whether you're in a red or a blue riding.
But hopefully we don't have to put this to the test.
Hopefully, this was an anomaly, a blip, and we never have to.
You know, it's like that great line in Jaws 2, which was a horrible movie, but where Chief Brody is going in to have a little showdown with the mayor because there are shark attacks appearing and it's right before the holiday weekend again.
And Chief Brody says, I lived through that hell once and I'm not going to live through it again.
That's where I stand on COVID-19 part two.
Look, we might be able to take you people as refugees in a free and independent Alberta.
I mean, I don't know.
I don't know.
Just think about it.
You guys are going to need a place where you can bug out to.
And it just could be Alberta.
Now, I know we have to touch on the gun rights issue because it is in the YouTube headline and then we'll do some chats and then the Daily Cringe.
Oh, and what a cringe.
Between this person and Olivia Chow.
She's a daily cringe recidivist.
She has to have her daily cringe work release revoked and she has to go back to cringe jail because she is the worst.
And it's constantly on an international scale where the Americans are like, who is that loony toon that you guys have in your parliament?
And by me saying that, I think you already know who I'm talking about.
But we'll get to that in a second.
Calgary-based firearms manufacturer shuts down, lays off workers following the RCMP decision to prohibit the R9MK1 sporting rifle.
Sterling Arms International president says they have around 100 of the now banned guns that they can't sell and hundreds more that have been banned over the past five years.
So these guys are based in Calgary, Sterling Arms.
The R9MK1 looks super cool, but it's just a regular old rifle.
And it was previously unrestricted, which means that the government has no clue how many of these are out there.
And they, up until quite literally last week, didn't have a problem with it or didn't think that it needed even an extra level of licensing, meaning that it would be a restricted firearm the way handguns used to be, the way AR-15s used to be.
This was just something that you could own, like your shotgun or your SKS.
And then one day, some authoritarian weaponized nerd in the RCMP firearms bureaucracy, faceless dork, who will never be held accountable for what he's doing, woke up and said, you know what?
We're moving this directly from unrestricted to prohib.
Meaning people went to bed with their guns safely locked in their gun safe, the way responsible firearms owners should do, woke up and thanks to the stroke of a pen of some weaponized geek, they're criminals now because they own a prohibited firearm.
And they nuked this guy's business.
They nuked the jobs of the people he employ, and they did it without proof.
They can't even say, look, we've got a gajillion amount of killings, shootings, these things are being trafficked by the gangs.
As if the gang trafficking would be on the feet of responsible firearms owners.
But, you know, that's usually the argument they try to make.
But they didn't even try to.
They're just like, you know what?
Looks sweet.
Let's ban it.
And this doesn't have to have any proof.
Nobody is called to the bar to make any sort of arguments on behalf of it.
If it backfires as it has here, nobody's held responsible.
Nobody's fired.
Nobody's accountable to Parliament.
Nothing.
These people are making rules and turning you into a criminal, and you don't even know who they are to hold them to account.
It is the worst thing that has that the RCMP firearms office has this power.
If, God willing, the Conservatives ever get elected, they need to strip this power from the RCMP.
And these prohibitions need to be made by politicians because you can vote out politicians and you'll never know this nerd's name.
No, well said, Sheila.
The only thing I can add is this.
Where's elbows up?
Last I looked, Sterling Arms based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
It's a Canadian company creating Canadian jobs, creating Canadian wealth.
Or I guess if you're in the firearms business, you don't count.
No elbows up for you, I guess.
This is sickening.
It's a disgrace.
And, you know, again, it's clear, Sheila, that the Carney Liberals are picking off where the Trudeau Liberals left off and are going on a jihad against legal, law-abiding gun owners who like to target shoot and hunt.
And meanwhile, on the flip side, you've got gangbangers accused even of attempted murder, if you can believe it, getting bail, getting out on parole.
If anyone can connect the dots in terms of the logical process involved here, well, there's a steak dinner in it for you because I've got nothing.
Yeah, I think it was, I forget who it is, guys, in the chat.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Was it Wolverine?
Wolverine made an AR-15.
And when the government prohibited it without any proof, there's some geek again putting it on the order in council, they basically nuked their entire business.
Elizabeth's Rant Against Digital Tax Avoidance00:13:36
And they didn't care because this, I mean, we're going to go all in, elbows up, for the foreign-owned electric vehicle manufacturers while sacrificing canola farmers on that altar.
We're going to go all in for steel.
We're going to go all in for these companies.
But these small, family-run firearms manufacturers, largely out here in Alberta, they're being destroyed.
And nobody seems to care.
Well, the firearms community cares.
Well, and we care, Sheila.
But the powers that be, the powers who are doing this stuff, they don't care.
They only care about, it feels like unionized jobs in the East, and they don't care about our jobs.
And Sheila, if I can just say this, I find when I meet people in the firearms community, these are the greatest people.
They are salt of the earth.
They're wonderful Canadians.
They're not criminals, despite the vilification and demonization of their hobby.
And it's a shame what's happening.
And, you know, hopefully it can be reversed when there is regime change.
But my goodness, there's so much to reverse, isn't there?
Sheila, I think we have some super chats, if I do believe.
Yeah, we've got just a couple, and then we'll get to the Daily Cringe.
Scamps, one, gives us five bucks, says thanks for doing all you do.
Thanks so much.
Thank you.
Yeah.
I don't know what else I would do.
What else would I do with my day?
You know what, Sheila?
You're selling yourself short.
I think you have so many skills.
Me, on the other hand, you're looking at a contemporary dinosaur if Rebel News effort goes away.
I would probably just put her around my yard with my cat in my garden.
Cicely, Cecily, gives us two bucks and says, just because.
Well, thank you so much.
Wow.
Okay, let's hit the Daily Cringe.
As I said, recidivist.
Repeat offender on the Daily Cringe.
Hall of Famer.
You know what?
Yes.
She's a gold star cringe, okay?
Elizabeth May goes on a rant for over nine minutes.
I'm not listening to nine minutes of this lunatic.
We might listen to two, maybe three.
Calling Donald Trump a bully.
You know what?
I feel like Elizabeth May wasn't quite bullied enough in her youth.
Telling Carney how to win the tariff war.
What tariff war?
We just keep getting tariffs.
Carney keeps putting his elbows down.
She wants the digital tax reimposed and collected.
Again, Green Socialist doesn't understand that that tax is not going to be paid by Netflix.
It's going to be paid by you, the Netflix watcher.
But on the flip side, maybe some of you would get off Netflix and go outside.
So I don't know.
I'm of two minds there.
I'm against taxes, though.
So let's listen to Elizabeth May, Green Party leader.
Again, she's the leader again.
And she's like a poltergeist.
She's just haunting the House of Commons.
They keep making her not the leader, and then she keeps taking the party back over.
Not a serious bunch, but anyways, let's see.
In fairness, Sheila, co-leader, along with the person who no one can remember his name.
I don't know.
I didn't know there was a co-leader until we were watching press conferences of her and him during the campaign.
And I was like, who's that guy?
Oh, co-leader?
And I'm like, I watch politics for a living.
And I had no idea who that guy was.
None.
Anyways, let's watch Elizabeth May.
Remember, pray for the people of her riding because they obviously, you know, I'm in favor of medicating the water wherever she lives because they have a mental illness problem.
Let's watch.
I have here, of course, communication from President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, who uses social media as his weapon of choice with late-night rants.
This one is extremely unusual, being allegedly a letter to our Prime Minister.
We know that Prime Minister Mark Carney has made every effort to engage in good faith with Donald Trump.
I think Mr. Trump doesn't know the meanings of good faith, nor does he understand the concept that once you've signed a treaty with a country, it means something.
He certainly likes signing things.
The letter is almost a parody of abuse of power.
It is a great honor, he starts.
Capital G, capital H, a great honor for me to send you this letter, which is full of threats and lies.
Well, thank you very much, Mr. Trump.
As the leader of the Green Party of Canada, as a member of Parliament, and as a Canadian who is outraged by the continual abuse and aggression we're receiving from what remains a great neighbor.
I mean, we're, there they are.
I sometimes feel like Sarah Palin when I wake up over there and say, I can see the United States out my window.
I see Mount Baker in Washington State due east.
And I think all of us as Canadians understand that our disputes are not with the people of the United States of America, but with the current administration.
And the decisions of that administration are a threat not just to the North American economy, but indeed to the global sense of international law, to an understood order of the world, to a world trading system, to decades of work in establishing something like geopolitical security.
That's been thrown out the window.
So why I asked you here this morning is what I would love to see our Prime Minister do in response.
I think there's no question in my mind.
I think everybody who was here for the election, all Canadians know, that the ballot question moved to who can best deal with Trump.
And we rallied around the call of elbows up.
I added to that arms outstretched because I do want our neighbors to the South to know that our dispute is not with them as individuals.
But we have to do what's required now to protect our economy.
And we have to make sure the U.S. knows that we're not going to cower in a corner and hope that someday they'll be nice to us if we give them all our lunch money.
We're dealing with a bully, or one might say we're dealing with a pirate.
Since I've never, there's never been in the history of the United States, there's no point in me saying I've never seen, there's never been in the history of the United States of America a president who so abused power as to aggrandize his personal wealth without concern for whether that would be seen as offensive to the sensibilities of people who understand what it is to be an elected official in a democratic nation.
So what can we do?
There are things we can do.
So I've suggested this today to Prime Minister Carney.
First step, the digital sales tax was passed by Parliament.
We so far have essentially press releases and mentions that we're going to remove it, not collect it.
We're collecting it.
I would urge that the Prime Minister make it clear that the digital sales tax be collected.
It's not merely an opportunistic move because these corporations are based in the United States.
They have been enriching themselves while robbing us.
They have hit different sectors of our economy in ways that have been damaging to the fabric of life in Canada, including through undermining our housing and access to affordable housing through things like Airbnbs.
They've undermined the institutions of democracy, particularly in journalism, through things like the ability to have classified ads under Khajiji and Craigslist that have replaced the number one source of revenue to most of the newspapers in Canada.
We accepted a lot of what was digital as benign.
And it's very clear, and we're not the only country around the world that sees this, that we need to get a hold of this.
So I think reversing the earlier decision to appease Trump by removing the digital services tax, Parliament hasn't repealed the law.
The law is there.
We collect the digital services tax.
It augments, as the Parliamentary Budget Officer has found, it gets billions of dollars a year.
But it also maintains coherence and allyship with the other nation states within the OECD that are doing the same thing.
We mustn't cave elbows up digital sales tax.
We also have to show the audience.
I've had so much.
Is she a, yeah, is she a lobbyist for the bargain finder or the auto trainer?
Like, what is she talking about?
I remember the bargain hunter.
The bargain finder.
I loved it.
We would come out on Thursday and I would immediately pick it up like five o'clock in the morning, pick it up, and just look at the free stuff.
Well, I'm so jealous of you, Sheila Gunrid.
You live in a market where I believe tradio is on the radio.
So if only for me.
Well, you know what?
Let's positive.
You know, the positive, Sheila, is Elizabeth May did not look, did not appear to be drunk.
I remember 10 years ago.
This is new.
You know, her co-leader, as she was talking, just to keep myself engaged and in reality, because when she talks, it feels like my head is too heavy for my neck sometimes.
I just was like, her co-leader resigned April 30th, and his Jonathan Pedno.
That's it.
Yeah, and he resigned April 30th, leaving May the sole dictator in charge of the Green Party of Canada.
Gulf, Sanditch, Gulf Islands, medicate the water there.
They're not making good choices.
I'm not in favor of medicating the water most of the time, but look, it's for their own good.
Wow, well, at least he got to see the light.
You're looking at the photograph of maybe the biggest footnote in Canadian political history.
But you know, Sheila, I go back to this.
You know, 10 years ago, that's when Elizabeth May got drunk and started singing Welcome Back Cotter.
But who she was serenading was our homegrown al-Qaeda terrorist, Omar Cotter, and saying he had, I forget the word, but there was more credence in a terrorist who killed somebody and injured another than the entire Conservative Party of Canada.
And secondly, did she not lose her street cred in the green movement?
I think it was Victoria Day 2019.
She shows up at that parade in Victoria behind the wheel of a 640 horsepower Dodge Viper.
Yeah, no, no hybrid here, no EV for Elizabeth May.
Pure muscle car mania.
Give me a break.
She should have lost her street cred with the Green Party when she has like one of the longest commutes to the House of Commons every single week, like from one side of the country, the furthest point, to the other side.
And there she is.
There she is.
Squawking them.
How can you be so unaware?
And by the way, look at the turnout there.
I'm counting maybe five people.
They're riveted.
They are absolutely riveted by Elizabeth.
Did you know that she has the Order of Canada?
She got it in 2005.
For what?
I don't know.
No, I mean, really?
Co-founder of the Sierra Club, I guess.
You know, well, that says something about the Order of Canada.
I was opening up a box of Count Chocolate the other day.
Oops, look at that.
An Order of Canada.
I mean, just unbelievable.
Well, there you go.
If you can stomach the rest of that rant, folks, more power to you.
Like, I still can't believe she's like, we need to get rid of Facebook Marketplace and Kijiji because we need to keep newspapers alive by having classified sections.
So wait a minute, Sheila.
Then what about in for a penny, in for a pound?
Then we need to get rid of the automobile altogether.
We go back to riding horses and donkeys, right?
Which, by the way, you know, pre-automobile, what the average city looked like with the amount of manure in it.
Horrendous.
Yeah.
You know, so please spare me the lectures of what's coming out of the tailpipe of an SUV.
Candlestick maker in the dawn of the electricity era.
What is wrong with it?
And it's not even the dawn of the electricity era.
She's like a candlestick maker 30 years after electricity was put into everybody else's house.
And she just wants to roll it back.
Elbows up.
Well, Sheila, I see we're about 20 past the hour, so we've got to wrap this up.
Let's wrap her up.
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You previously called for severe limits to population growth in Canada.
Can you clarify what you mean by that?
So, first of all, I'll tell you what I don't mean, which is natural population growth.
That is almost non-existent in Canada.
We have roughly the same number of people who die as who are born.
So, all of our population growth, in fact, in the last quarter, I think there were more deaths than births.
So, what I am referring to is migration, net migration.
We have millions of people whose permits will expire over the next couple of years, and they will, many of them will leave.
We need to ensure that more leave than come in over the next couple of years while we catch up.
Well, housing, health care, and jobs can catch up.
We've had population growth of roughly a million a year under the Liberals while we barely build 200,000 homes.
Our job market is stalled, and yet we're adding more people to the workforce.
Our young people are facing generational highs in unemployment because the jobs are the multinational corporations are giving jobs to low-wage, temporary foreign workers, and that ultimately leave our young people without opportunities.
Our country is divided, and we're not able to integrate people at this pace.
So, in order to fix the problem, we've got to have, we need to put very hard caps on immigration levels.
We need more people leaving than coming for the next couple of years.